and with the economic crash, dhl was losing $6 million a day in the u.s. layoffs started coming by the hundreds. is everybody a thursday layoff? everybody got laid off on thursday? most everybody. people who have worked here for decades found themselves in dhl-sponsored meetings learning about unemployment. >> we could tell you what we did on a daily basis, but you wouldn't believe it. you know, boxes in a big container, and it'll weigh 800 pounds. you push it out the door through 8 inches of snow and push it up on a barge, and we were idiots enough that we did it by ourselves. we worked as a team, and we had a good friend right alongside of us. >> you're losing a lot more than a job. >> our friends. it's crazy. you'll never understand it. but we loved it. >> i remember people with scarves breathing through ice, and just unreal, eyelashes frozen. and i started in '81, and when you worked, you worked. why weren't we bailed out? >> dhl is spending $260 million on severance pay and health insurance that will keep many workers going for several months, but the